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 True Stories from ZYZZYVA

Edited by Howard Junker

This collection of true stories celebrates the 20th anniversary of ZYZZYVA, the journal of West Coast writers and artists. Founding editor Howard Junker selects his fifth anthology from the pages of ZYZZYVA, and includes voices from across the full spectrum of our complex society: Judith Barrington gets ditched for being a "soft butch." Kevin Bentley survives the AIDS and grows older. Peter Coyote trips. Phyl Diri recalls the hood. Tsering Wangmo Dhompa visits family in Tibet. Victor Davis Hanson resists encroachment on his family farm in the Central Valley. Carolyn Lei-Lanilau negotiates being Hawaiian-Chinese-American.

Published in conjunction with ZYZZYVA.

Reviews

"Gracefully skirts the line between hip and highbrow."—Elle

"Highly recommended."—Library Journal

"Another superb magazine with a literary patina is giving nonfiction prose the respect and space it deserves."—Washington Post

About the Editor

Howard Junker founded ZYZZYVA in 1985. This is the fifth anthology he has edited from its pages. He has also edited and published, under the imprint ZYZZYVA Books, four first novels and three collections of poetry. As a journalist has contributed to many magazines, including Art in America, The Nation, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone.